Thanks, @Tony and @Hayim. Sounds like you might well have it. We will look into 
it.

> We've encountered a handful of ISV products over the years that write "RACF" 
> SMF records

Yeah, I have encountered at least one other, actually a homegrown product that 
writes Type 80 records.

Even TSS kind of fits this description. The primary TSS SMF record is Type 80 
and is "almost" like what RACF writes -- or rather, like what RACF wrote about 
twenty or thirty years ago.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Tony Harminc
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 9:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Help identifying source of SMF 80 record

On 5 July 2016 at 11:43, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking at an SMF 80 record from a customer that I am having 
> trouble making sense of. The customer is definitely a RACF user, not a 
> TSS user. The customer I believe is on z/OS V2R1.
>
> It is a valid SMF 80 record. The event.qualifier is 2.0. There are 
> three relocatable sections: a 49 (User Name) that says "Detection 
> Status", a 17 (Class name) that says "EK$CLASS" and a 1 (Resource 
> Name) that says "EKCA.SECURITY.DETECTION". The record is 2959 bytes 
> long, long for a RACF SMF record.
>
> So what's odd about it?
>
> 1. It is missing the RACF version SMF80VRM at offset 80 that was added 
> to RACF around OS/390 V1R2. That leads me to believe the record was 
> not produced by RACF.

Yup. We've encountered a handful of ISV products over the years that write 
"RACF" SMF records on their own initiative. None of them is fully "correct", 
either in that the record itself would never be written by RACF, or that it 
wouldn't be written in the context it is.

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